P. Schuyler Miller 25 min read

Summoned by his friend Bill's shouts, Mike bursts into a moonlit garden to find him wrestling a snarling little man in the freshly-spaded earth, the first tangle in a strange scientific mystery.

P. Schuyler Miller's 1940 story is an inventive hard-SF and military-SF tale. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a well-crafted story that opens on a scuffle and unfolds into a puzzle of science and menace, where a startling discovery about images and reality carries dangerous stakes, in solid golden-age style.

In its time

Published in 1940, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

25 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Herbert W. Holmdale